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	<description>Adventures in being sick, getting better, staying well, from the editors of Health.com</description>
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		<title>Medical Writing You Don&#8217;t Want to Miss</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/10/10/medical-writing-you-dont-want-to-miss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to marry a doctor or a lawyer. Not because of the slab of bacon he&#8217;d bring home (though that would&#8217;ve been nice), but because I am so fascinated by medicine and law that I imagined never getting bored at the dinner table.
Well, I ended up with a fellow journalist. The paycheck may not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Trojan Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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When I was in middle school, I remember giggling at a condom ad that ran on late-night radio. A couple would be about to, you know, do it! when Trojan Man would ride up on his horse and give the amorous pair a simple weapon in the war against sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Have to Prepare for Breast-Feeding Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn how to breast-feed before you give birth: That&#8217;s the advice I gave to a friend of mine who is about to have her first child. With a 10-month-old on my hip, I&#8217;m no expert on all things parental, but I did feel confident offering her the &#8220;learn now&#8221; nugget of wisdom.
It may seem counterintuitive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smiling Babies Make Moms Happy</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/07/07/smiling-babies-make-moms-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop quiz: That headline is a) printed on a T-shirt I picked up in a Tokyo novelty shop last week, b) a really freakin&#8217; obvious statement, or c) the results of a study published in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics.
If you went with b) and c), you&#8217;re a genius! Yes, it&#8217;s true; scientists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Wild Ride in the Cardiac MRI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I imagine that being shot out of a cannon at the circus is probably not too much different than undergoing a cardiac MRI. Only instead of sporting an Evel Knievel jumpsuit with cape and flying through the air to execute a stunt landing, you are shivering in a cotton hospital gown, stuck in a tight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News: Lupus Expert Declares Me Unimpressive</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/06/17/good-news-lupus-expert-declares-me-unimpressive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news, dear readers, my new rheumatologist listened to my long and detailed history, asked me a battery of questions (&#8221;Do you have any joint pain?&#8221; &#8220;What about rashes?&#8221; &#8220;Do your eyes ever feel dry?&#8221;) and declared herself &#8220;unimpressed.&#8221; As an expert on lupus and pregnancy, she quickly pointed out that I did not meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking Down a Medical Expert: The Process and the Cost</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/06/10/tracking-down-a-medical-expert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was time to track down an expert on autoimmune disease and pregnancy. My mystery chest pain (which first reared its ugly head during my pregnancy) had returned when my daughter was 3 months old, and my rheumatologist wanted me to consider going on a drug I couldn&#8217;t use while breast-feeding. That was a deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Pregnant Made Me Sick</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/05/28/getting-pregnant-made-me-sick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The only thing I knew I wanted to do when I grew up was become a mom, and I did it. Mine was not the fabled dream pregnancy, if such a thing exists, but I made it through a very difficult one with a mysterious medical ailment dogging me every bloated step of the way. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Beautiful Little Baby Who Made Nine Months of Hell Worthwhile</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/02/26/meet-the-beauti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the days following delivery I developed a 102-degree fever, and the doctors determined that there was a small amount of placenta still inside me causing an infection. This was not an unlikely occurrence given my placenta’s reticence to evacuate the premises, but it meant that I had to be re-admitted to the hospital for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Last: The Trial and Triumph of Giving Birth</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/02/12/at-last-the-tri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Wayne” is the kindly young doctor from the South who calmly ushered me through this stressful pregnancy and who goes by his first name with most nurses and residents. He struts into my hospital room with his friendly, competent game face on. I am thrilled! He tells me that he has switched shifts with another [...]]]></description>
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